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Perhaps the whole Mike Tyson saga is attributable to a short-term memory deficit like Guy Pearce’s in Christopher Nolan’s Academy-snubbed thriller. Perhaps Iron Mike just has no idea what he’s doing at a given point and lives life in brief, incomprehensible bursts. Even a movie plot might not be able to make sense out of Tyson. But then again, maybe it could...
...media story, of course, the Pearl saga has the added hook - much like the anthrax letter to Tom Brokaw - of being about one of our own. Pearl's boss, Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, pleaded with the group to at least restore Pearl to the role that led him to the Village restaurant the night of Jan. 22 - "View Danny as a messenger," Steiger wrote - and that is what shakes journalists most about the story. Hotspot reporters know the risks, but they're also used to thinking that what they can offer professionally - a mass audience - will...
...same, Harry can already claim a certain credit for modernizing the monarchy. Edward VIII's abdication for the woman he loved nearly caused a constitutional crisis. The Charles-Diana saga made the Windsors into an E! channel special, a gripping example of how never, ever to behave. Now Harry's problems are a group-therapy lesson, a gentle excuse for millions of parents to talk to their teens. Who says the royal family no longer has a role...
...Enron saga goes on, idling in something like neutral for now while the tidbits and hints of intrigue continue to pile up in the wings. And the death of Cliff Baxter may well prove totemic by the time it's all said and done - there's so much we don't know, and so many who didn't want us to know it, that if lawmakers expend all their energy chasing the ghosts of Enron instead of cleaning up the laws involved, it may find that after all the sound and fury they've learned little and cured less...
Luke Skywalker was not 1977's most popular epic hero; that was Kunta Kinte, the African whom author Alex Haley identified as his ancestor and whose family's 200-year saga became a 12-hr. ABC miniseries that broke ratings records and gave Americans of all shades a serious lesson in the horror of slavery. The event is recalled in an NBC special (this Friday) and the series' DVD release. Sprawling and stolid, Roots today evokes two vanished eras: the antebellum South, when blacks could earn dignity but not freedom; and those eight wintry nights when a whole nation could...